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The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil. Our results suggest that sheepskin effects take the traditional form of an additional...
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Many studies show that individuals from ethnic minority groups receive low levels of job-related training, raising the question of whether lower expected wage benefits contribute to this lack of training. In this paper, unit record data are used to examine the effect of job- related training on...
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, year-to-year change of earnings multiple P/E tends to anticorrelate with profits cycle. It shows sluggishness of market … trend. It is presence of phase of earnings accumulation. Such accumulation is possible only during periods of significant … outstripping of earnings growth over the market growth. Now there is no phase of earnings accumulation, because market returned to …
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The social science literature has done much to document pervasive racial discrimination in Brazil and there is little doubt that a very dark color is a handicap to social advancement. Nevertheless, very few empirical economic studies have attempted to quantify the impact of ethnic discrimination...
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firm size and earnings. To establish that such a question is of interest we need to show that the firm size-wage effect …
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Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women...
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. Our results also indicate that attending a college with a racially diverse student body increases the later earnings of …
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In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We offer evidence that children's participation in child...
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This paper examines the channels through which education affects household earnings in environments where wages are … unobserved. Utilizing data from rural Peru, the empirical strategy decomposes the earnings returns to education into various wage … identification of unobserved wages. Results indicate that education affects earnings disproportionately more than hours, implying …
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these returns have changed from 1980 to the late 1990s. We find strong evidence that the earnings function is convex for … both countries and document significant differences in the earnings profiles across cohorts, typically with stronger …
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